am a 300level student of a university, all d activities in my school library is done manually, shame!. I mean borrowing and returnig of books. Pls i want somebody to help me design a fantastic algorithsm to develop an app to be used in doing these activities. I can code in Visual Basic VB and C++ and may be VB.Net frm next semester I salute u all.

Good idea, let me help you a lot
Simplest way to do that ( i do this always - it's my way ) is to use good old pen and paper - use a book or multiple A4 papers
and THINK then write down your though at this point it won't be something useful
Then later on, again think, the following day again the same thing, when you are free but during classes hours e.g 8-2 think - jot down ideas
Keep doing this in 1 week, compile everything and you'll see you're done, don't worry about algorithm
Start to code it parts by parts till you'll have a complete application
Thats what i do, i always code my ideas in parts i.e do A jump to K, go to L go to Z then come back to B

Come back after one week with your response

xterra2: Good idea, let me help you a lot
Simplest way to do that ( i do this always - it's my way ) is to use good old pen and paper - use a book or multiple A4 papers
and THINK then write down your though at this point it won't be something useful
Then later on, again think, the following day again the same thing, when you are free but during classes hours e.g 8-2 think - jot down ideas
Keep doing this in 1 week, compile everything and you'll see you're done, <b style="font-weight:50px; color:red;">don't worry about algorithm</b>
Start to code it parts by parts till you'll have a complete application
Thats what i do, i always code my ideas in parts i.e do A jump to K, go to L go to Z then come back to B

Come back after one week with your response

I support every thing that @xterra2 has said exceept the u dont need to worry about algorithm.
Note this in programing <b>The fact that you are seeing result doesn't make it right</b> There is always a convention and a standard for doing everything, including writing of codes, the programming paradigm as a whole.
You necessary dont need to be a algorithm writer but that doesn't stops you from knowing the basic.
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